Ziyafat Asgarov

Ziyafat Abbas oglu Asgarov (; born 24 October 1963) is a professor and an Azerbaijani politician serving as the First Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan.

Early life Asgarov was born on 24 October 1963 in Aşağı Uzunoba village of Babek Rayon, Nakhchivan AR of Azerbaijan. He graduated from Azerbaijan State University cum laude. From 1990, he worked as a professor at the Law Department, deputy director of the department, assistant dean of the Law Department at the Azerbaijan State University. Currently, he's also a professor of the Constitutional Law Department of the same university. In 1995, he was one of the members of the working group of a commission which drafted the Constitution of Azerbaijan.

He's a PhD in law and an author to several textbooks and dozens of scientific publications. Asgarov has been teaching Constitutional law at Baku State University Law School. One of his notable students is Subhan Aliyev, a leading jurist on administrative law in Azerbaijan.

Asgarov is married and has two children. Asgarov is also the Chairman of the Defense and Security Committee of the National Assembly and head of the Azerbaijani delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.